Who said it: 'Silicon Valley' or Silicon Valley?

Mike Judge’s new series is hard to distinguish from what it satirizes.

HBO’s Silicon Valley is a comedy, but the show is set in the all-too-real world of northern California tech culture. Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether we’re laughing because the blowhard characters are laughably exaggerated versions of startup types, or if what we’re seeing is just uncomfortably close to the truth. We are living in a time when a song about social media marketing was performed unironically, after all.

See how well you can distinguish satire from delusion with the Daily Dot Valley Myopia Quiz. Who said it—a Silicon Valley character or a real-life tech titan?

13) “One quality that's a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent.”

A) Hacker News’s Paul Graham, or B) Silicon Valley?

14) “It’s not magic; it’s talent, and sweat. People like me make ensuring your packets get delivered unsniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bag config on one bad component doesn’t bankrupt the entire fucking company.”

A) Silicon Valley, or B) Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel?

15) “Make every detail perfect, and limit the number of details to perfect.”

Last week, GitHub’s first female developer, Julie Ann Horvath, quit the company over a staggering string of allegations that while working there she was subjected to harassment, intimidation, and sexism in the workplace. Considering Horvath also launched GitHub’s Passion Projects initiative to recruit more women into the Open Source community, this was quite a loss. GitHub has responded by putting the founder at the source of her claims on leave pending an investigation.